"A Clean Well-lighted Place"

Even though a book and movie can be about the same topic or story there can still be many scenes, many lines, and many characters that are different. An example of this is the short story and film, “A Clean Well-lighted Place”.  Even though it is not a long film it has a lot of tiny details different from the story. There are also many parts that are the same too.

 For example one thing different in the movie from the story is when the waiter pours the old man another drink he doesn’t fill it up high enough and the old man wants more. When he pours the extra drink in, the waiter gives him a bad attitude and fills it over the rim, but in the story he pours the extra beer in kindly. Another difference is in the story the old man sits in a chair covered in the shadows of the trees, while in the movie he is in a booth with tons of light shining on him.

 The story and movie also have some things in common. One example is in the story and movie the dialogue is exactly the same, word for word. This made the story make a little more sense because it was a little confusing but when you see it in action it clears things up. The last example of how they are the same is the week before the old man tries to commit suicide by hanging himself but his niece comes to the rescue and cuts him down.

These two pieces share many things in common and have many differences, but in the end both the movie and the story share same meaning.  They both make it clear that the old man is in a lot of despair and darkness, along with “…the waiter in a hurry…” too. On the other hand the waiter who looks on the positive side walks in the light and not into darkness and despair. If it all came down to the dark and the light which side would you pick?